The Alliance Herald
T. J. O'KEEFE, Publisher.
ALLIANCE,
NEBRASKA.
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Brief Telegrams
Flvo thousand tin plato workers In
Pittsburg want an Increase In their
wages.
Tho trial of Senator Mitchell for
complicity In Oregon land frauds has
comraonccd.
Governor Magoon at Panama, has
roportcd four now cases of yellow
fever on tho Isthmus.
Tho nppolntmont of Benjamin Moss,
man as chief clerk of tho Union In
dian agency at Muskogee, I. T., was
officially announced nt tho Interior de
partment. Mr. W. A. Shoomakor, secretary of
tho Cincinnati, New Orleans & Toxafl
Pacific railway has offered his re
signation. Additional pay of $1 a month to en
listed men In tho army who qualify
ns "export riflemen" Is offorod In gon
cral orders Issued by Gonoral Chatfco,
chief of staff.
Tho united Norwegian Lutheran
church convention closed at Minne
apolis. Tho question of uniting with
tho other Lutheran churches was left
to tho trustees.
Eight candidates for membership on
tho Vandorbllt university football
team for tho coming season left Nash
vlllo, Tcnn., to work In tho harvest
Holds of tho west.
Counsel for tho plaintiffs In tho fa
mous Hoyt will caso, who aro trying
to break tho will of Mrs. Hoyt, which
gives $100,000 to Judgo Dunn, closed
their sldo of tho case.
At San Francisco, after holding
1,000 persons nt bay for two hourB In
Eddy street, shooting nlno pcoplo and
defying tho police, Thomas Lobb, a
maniac, killed himself.
Arthur Ford Mackenzie, tho cele
brated choss player, problemist and
author, died at Kingston, Jamaica. Ho
was about 45 years old and had been
nn Invalid for many years.
Desslo Abbott, tho American singer
of tho Paris Grand Opera house, will
mako a concert tour of America dur
ing tho coming season under tho man
agement of Honry Wolfsohn.
Tho call for tho sixteenth annual
meeting of tho truns-MIssIsslppl com
mercial congress to bd held at Port
land, Ore., has beon Issued. Tho moot
ing will bo bold August 1C to 10.
Prlnco Wlndeschgratz, of tho royal
liouso of Austria, arrived in San Fran
cisco from tho Orient, on a tour of tho
world. Ho Is traveling with Flold
Marshal Count Huebner, of Austria.
Tho Moxlcan Contrnl Railway Com
pany, which Is a Massachusetts cor
poration, filed with tho secretary of
state a certificate of an tncrcaso In Its
capital from 548,875,000 to $100,000,.
000.
Tho stato department has been in
formed that tho Chlneso government
has conferred upon Minister John Bar
rett, of Colombia, tho Order of tho
Doublo Dragon, second class, first
grade.
Tho St Louis & Snn Francisco Rail
road company announced that a spec
ial train will bo sent on a Southern
tour for tho purposo of educating
lnrmers In tho raising of wheat and
other grains.
An extra dividend of tho unusually
largo amount of 120 per cent, in ad
dition to tho regular quarterly divid
end of 25 per cent, has been declared
by tho directors of tho Fifth Avenue
bank, New York.
Formor Congressman Goorgo Fred
"Williams of Boston, Mass., who ar
rived at Havana, Cuba, from Mexico,
on his wny to Now York, was taken
from tho steamer suffering with erysi
pelas of the right leg.
A dispatch to tho London Telegram
Exchange company from St Peters
burg says tho commission appointed
to Investigate tho capitulation of Port
Arthur finds that tho surrender of tho
fortress was Justifiable.
Tho directors of tho suspended
Merchant's Trust company, Now York,
voted to accept tho offer of $850,000
made by a syndicate for tho Hudson
Valley Hallway Company stock which
Is hold by the trust company.
Orders have been given by tho navy
department to place tho cruiser May
flower lu commission by August 1,
after certain repairs nro made, so
that sho may bo available for uso in
the entertainment of tho peace en
voys of Russia and Japan.
Postmaster General Cortelyou Is
sued an order amending tho postal
regulations so as to provide that no
postmaster, assistant postmaster, su
perintendent of delivery, assistant of
superintendent of delivery, clerk, let
ter carrier, or any employe at any
postoffice, shall act as collector or
agent for any firm In tho solo or
manufacture of letter carriers' uni
forms or any portion thereof.
Lightning struck a great oil tank
et Lima, O., and 33,000 barrels of
naphtha were destroyed.
A new and more searching investi
gation of the Equitable Is to be start
ed under orders of Paul Morton, tho
newly chosen chairman of board of
directors of tho society.
The pope has Issued on encyclical
encouraging Catholics to participate
jln public affairs.
Tho New YorK Herald is out in a
'bitter attack on tho department of
'agriculture, which, It declares, Is a
power unto itself with which no one
dares meddle.
THE NEWS IN
A NEBRASKA MAN
DIES AT ACE OF 102
FULLERTON Orren W. Sherman,
tho oldest citizen of Nanco county
and presumedly tho oldest man in tho
stato, died of cancer at his homo In
this city, and was burled In tho Ful
Jorton cemetory.' Rev. Mr. Vnllow,
pastor of tho M. E. church officiating.
Mr. Sherman was born in Wlndom
county, Connecticut, October 10, 1802,
and was 102 years and eight months
and seven days of ngo when death's
summons camo to him.
H's boyhood was spent on a Bmall
farm In his natlvo stnto whero ho un
derwent tho hardships incident to
farm llfo of that day.
THE NEBRASKA STATE FAIR
Secretary Bassett Issued. Circular cf
Importance.
Office of Stato Board of Agriculture,
Lincoln, Nob. Tho following circular
has boon issued by Secrotnry Bassott:
"Somo misunderstanding has arisen
in regard to tho provision in tho Ne
braska Btato fair premium list relat
ing to what nro termed "senior
calves." Tho provision reads six
months and undor ono year (not per
mitted to havo nurso mother.) Tho
board of managers rulos that during
tho stato fair such calves aro not
permitted to nurso but ono cow; sucn
Cow may bo tho mothor of such calf
or not; In either event during the
week of tho stato fnlr such calf to
nurso but ono cow.
"This provision In regard to "not to
havo nurso mothor" was Inserted at
tho suggestions of tho secretary of tho
Illinois stnto board of agriculture and
applies to sonlor calves only, that 1:j,
six months and under ono year."
"Tho classifications In retard to
senior and junior calves In tho beef
breeds was mado nt tho request of
breeders of beof cattle and was not In
tended to apply to tho dnlry breeds.
"In both 'exhibitors herd and
'brecdors herd' In class B-Cattlo, tho
premium list provides for animals
'under ono year' and mnkes no men
tion of 'nurso mother;' therefore in
exhibitors herd and breeders young
herd an exhibitor can show animals
under one year regardless of whether
they havo nurso mothor or not.
In dairy breeds, class B-Lots 8 and
9, premium numbers 175, 179, 191 and
195 should rend 'under ono year' in
stead of 'under six months.'
"Tho secretary's office has been
moved from Brownvlllo to Lincoln,
and S. C. Bassott appointed to fill
vacancy.
"For premium lists or other Infor
mation In regard to stato fair matters
address S. C. BASSETT, Secretary."
HAIL AND RAIN
DAMAGE THE CROPS
NORFOLK Reports of tho hall and
ralnstornl which visited northern Ne
braska Indicate that tho area of the
disturbance was general in tho sec
tion extending west to Long Pino tmd
north to tho Neoraska-South Dakota
coundary. Hall fell with terrific forco
In mnny localities, literary pounding
tho crops that It struck Into tho earth,
stripping fruit trcos, cutting tho limbs
from ordinary trees and shattering
windows.
.. Fatalities In Fire at Elkhorn.
ELKHORN Fred Paash, a Ger
man farmer residing near here, la
dead and his wifo seriously burned as
the result of an explosion, of coal oil.
Mr. Paash started to light a firo in
tho stove. After igniting tho fuel he
poured oil out of a five-gallon can on
tho flro. Flames were Immediately
communicated to tho can, which ex
ploded, covering tho unfortunate man
with burning oil. His wlfo camo to
his assistance), but obuld do nothing
to savo him and ho fell to tho floor in
nn unconscious condition, burned from
head to foot His wifo, Buffering from
burns and tho flesh falling from her
body, which was then practically
nude, walked to tno homo of a neigh
bor, where sho was given such treat
ment as could bo administered. Sho is
in a critical condition.
Promotions on Elkhorn.
NORFOLK By n change In tho
Northwestern railroad headquarters,
E. O. Mount, chlof train dispatcher for
Nebraska and Wyoming, Is promoted
to trnlnmaster of tho lines out of Nor
folk, tho territory of Trainmaster
Roach of Fremont Is diminished, nnd
E. Sly Is promoted to fill tho vacancy
made by Mr. Mount
Discouraging Fruit Prospects.
NEBRASKA CITY Fruit growers
are authority for tho statement that a
less amount of fruit will bo raised In
thl3 county than for many years past.
The cherry and peach crops aro a
total failure. There will be a few early
apples, but the late apples have all
fallen oft the trees.
Great Northern Right of Way.
FREMONT Tho right-of-way of
the Great Northern south of tho rail
road In this city will tako about sev
enty-flve lots on which there aro
houses, and some activity in real es
tate In that vicinity Is therefore look
ed for.
Sheepman Killed by Lightning.
KIMBALL Thomas DInsdale, a
prominent sheep owner living in tho
southern part of this county, was in
stantly killed by lightning on his
ranch.
NEBRASKA
OVER THE STATE.
Tho Commercial club and business
men of Beatrice aro contemplating an
excursion to Omaha in tho near future.
Tho store of R. F. Dovel at Howe,
was broken into and a quantity of
flour, candy, canned goods and cigars
stolen.
Bon Harper, a bachelor and wealthy
farmer, living thrco miles northeast
of Humphrey, committed suicide by
hanging.
Money is declared to bo easy by tho
bankers of Nebraska, and deposits,
loans and reserves havo increased ma
terially during tho Inst four months.
At tho city, council meeting of Ne
braska City an ordinance was passed
prohibiting spitting on tho Bldewalks
and provides n penalty for its viola
tion. As far ns known, McCool Is tho only
plnco In York county that will cele
brate July 4. It has not sent but pro
grams, hut will soon ndvortlso tho
celebration.
Henry Nue, ono of tho leading farm
ers of Berlin precinct, Otoo county,
was arrested on complaint filed by
Mrs. Lllllo Comstock charging him
with assaulting and beating her.
Captnln and Mrs. W. S. Mapes, for
merly of Fort Niobrara, Neb., loft
Norfolk last week for the Phlllpplno
Islands, where the captain goes to
tako charge of a company of scouts.
During a neighborhood quarrel at
Beatrlco a woman named Nelson
threw a can of concentrated lyo Into
tho faco of Mrs. Martin Ossowskl. Tho
woman was badly burned on tho face
and arms.
C. D. Scholl and wife nnd child aro
In Beatrlco from tho Phlllpplno Is
lands for n visit with Mr. Schell's
parents. Tho former Is employed by
tho government as a teacher at Sanls
ador, P. I.
News has been received at Platts
mouth of tho death of Mrs. Illlsana
MIckelwalt. which occurred recently
at Joncsborough, Ark. Mrs. MIckelwalt
was ono of tho very earliest residents
of Plattsmouth.
Farmers In tho vicinity of Beatrlco
sny that tho last rain has practically
Insured tho wheat crop and, while tho
yield will not bo heavy, It will bo of
flno quality. Oats Is looking well and
corn Is fully up to tho standard.
At Leigh at an adjourned meeting of
tho vlllngo board a special election
was called for the purpose of voting
$8,000 bonds for tho purposo of erect
ing a system of water works. The
olectlon will bo held on Tuesday, July
11th.
Sheriff Trudo of Gngo county left
for Denver, armed with requisition pa
pers, and will bring back Oscar
Shores, who Is wanted on a charge of
alleged criminal assault, preferred by
May Hurless of Adams. Shores Is un
dor arrest In Denver.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Penso were
visiting tho homo of her parents l:i
Harvnrd when their child, 2 years of
age, found a box of Paris green, tak
ing qulto freely of tho contents before
discovered. Prompt work by a physi
cian saved tho child's life.
.Claude Sutton, 21 years old, was In
stantly killed nt Silver Creek. Sutton
was crossing the Union Pacific tracks
and was struck by No. 10, tho east
bound fast mall. Both ho and the
team wero killed outright. Sutton was
thrown high In the air and fell about
sixty feet from whero he was struck
Crop conditions for Banner county
wero never better thnn at tho present
time, although about two weeks late.
Tho stand of corn Is good, and all
kinds of small grain are looking flno
Tho Hessian fly has mndo Its appear
anco in several places, but no fears
aro entertained that they will greatly
damage crops.
A live pig in tho haystack for foui
months without food or drink is the
unlquo experience of a beast that bo
longs to E. M. Martin at Fairfax, R
D., Just over tho Nebraska lino. The
pig disappeared during a snowstorm
in January and had not been found
since. Ho was discovered in a little
cradle that ho had made for hlrasell
right In the center of tho Btack.
Gorald Lammers, a boy 11 years old
of West Point, was tho victim of a self
Inflicted accident, which Tesulted In
his death a few h.ours later. Tho lad
found an old toy pistol In the after
noon, and by some means ho secured
a 22-callbro cartridge which ho In
serted In the barrel of tho pistol and
proceeded to discharge it by beating
It against a stono with tho barrel
pointing Into his face.
Manager Fcrrar of tho American
Beet Sugar company, Grand Island ro
ports the condition of tho beet crop ns
having materially Improved In the last
few weeks. In somo places, In lowei
lands, much work will have to be done
to catch up with tho weeding and
thinning process and the crop is still
a trifle late, but with the moro encour
aging weather the prospects for a suf
flclent crop nro now regarded as excel
lent
Bustles have been put to a new use
In Pierce county. A farmer from Os
mond last week walked Into a Pierce
millinery store whero he seen bustle
on display. Ho bought twenty of them
and took them homo to muzzlo hit
calves.
Tho board of managers of the Sew
ard county fair held a meeting and do
cided to hold a stock Judging contest
for ycfuug men under 20 years old, un
dor the supervision of an expert Judge
from tho stnto farm. The object of this
Is to stlmulato 'this branch of farm
work. Liberal prizes will be given the
winners.
ADDS TO SPLENDOE
MEN OF BUSINESS RECOGNIZE
ADVANTAGES OF ACETYLENE.
Famous Summer Hotel, the Grand
Union of Saratoga, Has Installed
This Best of All Artificial Lights
Means Increased .Comfort and
Health.
Saratoga, Juno 27. Tho very name,
"Saratoga," brings to every mind
health-giving springs, unsurpassed
hotels and beautiful drives. It
has been for many years tho
Mecca for all who admlro nature,
enjoy good living, and aro searching
for health, or are simply taking a va
cation. Tho Grand Union, tho largest sum
mo r hotel in tho United States, set
among green trees with Its long wings
enclosing a court with fountains end
flowers, grass and trees, music and
light, Is throughout tho season throng
ed with guests. With tho progressive
spirit always shown by Its manage
ment the Grand Union has again add
ed to Its attractiveness by Introduc
ing acetylene gas to mako still moro
brilliant tho ovcnlng hours. Tho go
nial proprietors believe in furnishing
their guests with tho best of every
thing, and now, after Investigating
and finding that Artificial Sunlight
can bo had, they havo installed a com
plcto acetylene gas plant to produco
It, and havo connected upwards of six
thousand acetylene burners in and
about tho house and grounds to this
Httlo gas plant.
Llko many discoveries of recent
years, which aro coming Into popular
favor, acetylene, ono of tho most re
cent, Is very Blmply produced. It Is
adapted for uso wherever artificial
light Is needed and tho necessary ap
paratus can bo understood and oper
ated by anyone.
Tho generator in which Acetylene
Is produced by the automatic contact of
carbldo and water might bo termed a
gas plant, as it performs all of tho func
tions of a city gas plant Tho acet
yleno generator can bo purchased for
a few dollars and In any size, from
ono adapted to furnish acetylene to
ten or a dozen burners for a cottage,
up to tho largo but still simple ma
chine such as Is now furnishing
Acotyleno for six thousand burners
In the Grand Union.
Outsido of largo cities tho use of
Acotyleno Is qulto common. The
owner of tho country home now de
mands running water, gas and other
conveniences which a few jears ago
wero considered a3 luxuries, and
acetylene gas has mot his require
ments, and gives him a better and
cheaper light than is ordinarily fur
nished in cities.
It is well known that rooms lighted
with Acetylene are moro comfortable,
because cooler, and more healthful be
cause tho air Is not vitiated.
Why Butter Is Eaten.
Thero aro generally scientific rea
sons for dietetic habits. Butter is eat
en with bread, tho Dietetic and Hygi
enic Gazette explains, because while
bread is rich in starch and contains
a fair proportion of proteld, It has not
tho fat which tho body craves. Milk
Is taken with rice pudding to mako up
tho deficiency of proteld which rice
lacks.
Giving Away a Secret.
A Birmingham church warden, says
tho London News, was reading at a
vestry meeting a list of subscriptions
to tho parochial funds. Tho list be
gan ns follows: "Tho vicar, a guinea;
Mrs. , half a guinea; an anony
mous donor, myself, twenty-five shil
lings." Quicksilver Mining.
In tho Alamaden (Spain) quicksilver
mines tho miner cannot work more
than four and one-hnlf hours a day
and cannot work more than seven or
eight daj'3 a month without seriously
Injuring his health.
Alligator for Dinner.
After promising to get somo fish for
dinner, Max Hnrtmann, having gone
mad, went to tho Hamburg Zoo, re
moved a young alligator from a pond
and took It homo for his wlfo to cook.
Of Wide Interest.
Breed, Wis., June 2C Special
Chas. Y. Peterson, Justice of tho Peaco
for Oconto Co., has delivered a Judg
ment that Is of Interest to tho wholo
United States. Put briefly, that Judg
ment is, "Dodd's Kidney Pills are tho
best Kidney medicine on tho market
to-day."
And Mr. Peterson gives his reason
for this Judgment Ho says: "Last
winter I had an aching pain in my
back which troubled me very much.
In tho morning I could hardly straight
en my back. I did not know what it
was but an advertisement led mo to
try Dodd's Kidney Pills. After taking
ono box I can only say they have done
moro for me than expected as I feel as
well now as ever I did before."
Pain in the back is ono of the first
symptoms of Kidney disease. If not
cured by Dodd's Kidney Pills it may
develop into Brlght's Disease, Dia
betes, Rheumatism or some of the
other deadly forms of Kidney Disease.
Colorado's Forest Reserves.
Tho forest reserve system In Colo
rado now includes near 7.000,000 acres,
nearly doublo the amount found in any
other stato In tho union.
Church Trustees
should Investigate Acetylene Gas. See
ad of Acetylene Apparatus Mfg. Co. In
this paper.
The great thing is not so much to
get people Into the church as to get
Christ into the people.
FRANKNESS NOT ALWAYS WISE
Why One Woman Has Determined Henceforth
Not to Commit Herself When Advice Is Asked
When tho wise woman Is asked uy
tho friend of her heart, "How do you
think this gown fits?" sho edges away
from the precipice which yawns nt her
feet and tnkes refuge in platitudes.
"It's a beautiful gown," sho says, and
then, wltli nnlmntlon, "Aren't we hav
ing lots of strawberries this year, and
tho fruit people Bay the crop of
peaches will be abnormally large,"
says tho 'Baltlmoro News.
Tho wise woman has learned how to
answer such questions by sad, sad ex
perience. There was a time when sho
would have replied, aftor much
thought: "Why, the sonm which
should go down the middle of your
back Is a little awry, and one armholo
Is larger than tho other."
"Sho remembors the time when sho
was Innocent and thoughtless, and she
did this for tho benefit of her denrest
friend, who had Implored her to be
perfectly frank.
Sho remombers that tho friend gave
her one look of scorn and swept from
tho room, remarking frigidly as sho
did so: "Thero certainly must be
something the mntter with your eyes,
for this gown was made by tho smart
est cutoulrore In tho city, and I think
It Is qulto tho prettiest and best-fitting
I have seen this season."
This page, knowing these things,
came tho other day upon a friend In
her boudoir wearing a new and tip
tilted hat and an absorbed and anx
ious expression.
ORIGIN OF FLY FISHING
Sport Dates Back to Classic Times, as
Shown in Greek Writings of Third Century-
Probably few fishermen are aware
that fly fishing dates back to classic
times, says Forest and Stream. A
mlnuto description of tho artificial fly
as used by Mncedonlnn anglers Is
given by Aellan, a Greek writer of the
third century A. D., as follows:
"Between Berea and Thessalonica
thero flows a river, Astraeus by name,
and thero in It fishes of a spotted col
or; but by what name the people of
those parts call them It Is better to
ask Macedonians. At any rate, these
fish live upon the native files which
fall Into the river, and are like no flies'
of any other part; one would neither
call them wasplike in appearance, nor
would ono reply to a question that
this creature Is formed like what we
call the bumble bees, nor yet like the
honey bees themselves. It has really
tho proper fashion of each of tho
above. In audacity It Is like a fly, in
slzo It might bo called a bumble bee,
In color It rivals tho wasp and it
buzzeB llko the honey bees. All com
mon creatures of this sort are called
horso tails. These pitch upon tho
stream to seek the food they affect,
but cannot help being seen by the
flsh, which swim underneath.
"So whenever one of them sees tho
fly floating ho comes softly, swimming
ANTIDOTE FOR SNAKE BITE
Fluid That Is Used by Mexicans and Sup
posed to Be Secret Remedy of the Moki Indians
Supt. B. F. Daniel of the Territori
al prison, who has been In the city
for tho last three days, says the Ar
izona Republican, told while here of
a certain euro for the bite of the rat
tlesnake. He had heard of It while he had
been engaged in mining in Mexico,
and since he became superintendent
of tho prison ho has seen two or three
Mexican convicts who had been cured
and who had the scars to show that
they had been bitten. On the hand
of ono of then! was the trace of a cen
tipede, whoso poison also yields to
tho remedy. Its existence, however,
Is not widely known, even In Mexico,
and Is supposed to be entirely un
known out of that country.
There Is In every rattlesnako a
small sac, about the size of a Mexican
bean, attached to the Intestines; This
is filled with a brownish or black
fluid, and that fluid Is tho cure for the
bite. If It Is applied Immediately the
patient will not even isuffer any swell
ing and will entirely avoid pain.
Many Mexicans carry tho fluid with
them at all times when they are In
tho mountains or on the desert. These
Mexicans kill all the rattlers they can
find, and most of them store the fluid
CALLED WIZARD OF JAPAN
Inhabitants of Mikado's Empire Honor Shimo
nose. Inventor of a Most Powerful Explosive
Tho story of Dr. 31an Shlmonose
and his wonderful gunpowder Is told
by Yono Noguchi, in "Success." Tho
following brief quotation gives an
idea of tho great Japanese Inventor
and his work:
Japan is honoring Dr. Gian Shlmon
ose the Inventor of the Shlmonose
gunpowder which the Japanese navy
is using in the war with Russia. Rub
sla herself frankly admits the power
and effectiveness of the Japanese
balls.
Dr. Shlmonose Is 4G years old. He
married when ho was 2C. He is the
father of ono son and one daughter.
His wife Is said to bo remarkable for
her sympathy with her husband's
work. The Japanese sentimentally
call him one of tho great Inventors of
the world,,not merely of Japan.
He was born poor and without any
tsupport for his education,. While at
"Come in, como In I" said tho friend
when sho observed tho woman'B page
looking at her; "you aro tho very per
son I most wanted to see. Glvo mo
your red-hot ldens about this hat. I
have had it sent up on approval, and
so I don't havo to take It, and I'm not
qulto satisfied with It myself. Toll mo
what you think."
The woman's page imagines she is
wise In her generation, and she hedg
ed gracefully. "What lovely roses,"
she said enthusiastically, "and how
artistically they nro placed."
"Nonsense! What do you think of
tho hat." persisted her friend; "tell
me the real truth, for I must decldo
to-day, and I really believe I could get
something prettier, don't you?"
Thus conjured, the pago dropped her
wonted caution. "If you really want
to know what I think, I will tell you
that, In my opinion, tho hat Is too
large for you; n smaller one would be
moro becoming."
"Well, this one suits mo," replied
tho friend, tersely. And to a maid pass
ing the door: "Mary Anne, telephone
Mme. Browne and tell her I will take
the lint sho sent up."
The vocabulary of tho woman's
page was not large enough to meet
the occasion, but she anathematized
herself by everything she knew, and
made a new and unbreakable rosolvo
never to speak her mind again about
the possessions of a friend.
under the water, fearful of disturbing
tho surface and so scaring away his
game. Then ho comes near the shady
side of the fly, gapes and sucks him In
Just like a wolf snatching a sheep
from the fold or nn eagle a goose from
the yard. This done, he disappears be
neath the ripple. The fishermen un
derstand these manoeuvres, but they
do not mako any use of these files for
a bait for the flsh; for If the human
hand lays hold of them they lose their
natural color, their wings fray and
they become uneatablo to tho flsh.
So for this reason they make no uso
of them, disliking them because their
nature forbids their capture. So with
angling craft they outwit tho flsh,
devising a sort of lure- against them.
They lap a lock of reddish wool round
the hook, and to tho wool two cock's
feathers which gr6w under tho wat
tles, and are brought to the proper
color with wax. Tho rod Is from six
to ten feet long, and the horse hair
line has the same length. They lower
the lure. Tho flsh Is attracted by tho
color, excited, draws closo; and
judging from its beautiful appear
ance that It will obtain a marvelous
banquet, forthwith opens its mouth,
but is caught by the hook, and bitter,
I indeed, Is the feast it has, inasmuch
as It Is captured."
in a bottle made of a rifle cartridge
shell which Is tightly corked.
In anatomical descriptions of tho
rattler no mention Is mndo of this
particular sac, though air sacs aro
members of the snake family. But
there Is no doubt of tho existence of
It, for Mr, Daniel snld he had seea
Mexicans remove It frequently."
It may be that this fluid Is the se
cret of the Moki Indians, and accounts
for the Immunity that they enjoy from
the poison of tho rattler. Those who
have attended their annual snake
dances and have seen dnncers bitten
have wondered" that tho bites wero
not fatal.
At any rate, the secret of tho Im
munity Is one of the most carefully
guarded secrets of the rites of the
Molds and Is kept within a select or
der of the priesthood. Dr. J. Miller
for years annually attended these
dances and made a study of tho cer
emonies. The Indians formally adopt
ed him, not only Into the tribe, but
advanced him in the priesthood. Tho
doctor wanted chiefly to learn tho se
cret of tho poison antedote, and ho
was" told j'ear after year that tho next
year ho would be put In possession
i of the secret. But he died without it
homo ho studied English under Fumlo
Muratn. who studied In London. In
his eighteenth year ho left home for
Tokyo on foot. At that time Japan
had no railroad and no steamers ran
regularly. From Hiroshima, his na
tlve province, to Tokyo, Is some 600
miles In Japanese measurement
When he reached the capital ho went
through the examination and was suc
cessfully admitted to the Imperial uni
versity. From scantiness of money
ho was often compelled to go without
food. He borrowed text books from
a fellow student and copied them. It
Js said that ho could not raise money
even for hl3 hair cutting or a bath.
After graduation ho found work In a
printing office. His first waeos worn
r small, but, like many successful Amer
icans, ne always had an Ideal in
mind and toward this Ideal he con
stantly worked. He Is clven m-Pt
J oredit for the victories over Russia
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